printer installs

[Donald Thaler]

We recently upgraded two of our unix systems to 11i. Is there someway we can copy the printer settings from one system to another without having to re-enter them one at a time.
Is it possible to copy cron from one system to another?

[Rick Garland · Accepted solution]

On the system to export from

# /usr/sam/lbin/lpmgr -S
this will save the info in the /var/sam/lp/lpinfo file

copy the configuration to the new system

# rcp -rp /var/sam/lp/* :/var/sam/lp/./
can use the .rhosts file for this command

be sure to remove the .rhosts entries after completed

On the system that was exported to

# /usr/sam/lbin/lpmgr -R
this will restore the info in /var/sam/lp/* on the new system

[Geoff Wild]

I have done almost the same as Rick - but specify the location:

/usr/sam/lbin/lpmgr -S -v -xsavedir=/var/sam/lp/ ; cp -r -p /var/sam/lp/lp.new/* /var/sam/lp/

Then tar up the /var/sam/lp/ directory and transfer to the remote server.

On remote:

un tar it into /var/sam/lp

/usr/sam/lbin/lpmgr -R -xsavedir=/var/sam/lp/

Rgds...Geoff

[Marvin Strong]

The above suggestions will move your printers.

Per your "Is it possible to copy cron from one system to another?"

yes all crons are kept in

/var/spool/cron/crontabs

copy the ones you need. Keep in mind you might also need to copy some scripts, and make changes to some cron jobs for the new server.

[Raj D.]

1. Printer configuration to save.

# /usr/sam/lbin/lpmgr -S -v -xsavedir=/home/donald/printers/

2. archive this directory to a single file, and ftp this to 11i server.

3. extract the file on hpux 11i system

4. Restore the configurations of the printers:

# /usr/sam/lbin/lpmgr -R -v -xsavedir=/home/donald/printers

5. check with
# lpstat -t | grep printer_name


Enjoy ,
Cheers,
Raj.

[Raj D.]

Hi Donald ,

Step.2 can be done with , tar , gz.

# cd /home/donald/printers/
# tar -cvf printers.tar *
# gzip printers.tar

# scp printers.tar.gz hpux11i:/home/donald
----

Logon to: hpux11i
# cd /home/donald
# mkdir printers
# gunzip printers.tar.gz
# tar -xvf printers.tar
-----

Finally:
# /usr/sam/lbin/lpmgr -R -v -xsavedir=/home/donald/printers


Cheers,
Raj.

[Arunvijai_4]

You can copy all cron jobs from /var/spool/cron/crontabs and put it in your new env. # ll /var/spool/cron/crontabs
total 16
-r-------- 1 root sys 161 Jul 22 12:35 root


-Arun

[Jeff Lightner_1]

Assuming you're doing Jetadmin (now called HPPI or HPNPL) you can use the "transferqueue" command.

Note there are differences between Jetadmin and the newere HPNPL stuff. I ran into some issues and ran a thread on the Dutchworks mailing list. In that you'll see the problem I saw as well as my solution with detailed steps with transferqueue usage:

http://www.dutchworks.nl/htbin/hpsysadmin?h=3&dn=97986&q=Jeffrey%20C.%20Lightner&fh

[Donald Thaler]

after using rcp as suggested by rick garland i tried to restore the printer info by executing /user/sam/lbin/lpmgr -R on the new system and it seems to hang.